Univoque numbers and an avatar of Thue–Morse

DOI10.4064/AA136-4-2zbMATH Open1168.11002arXiv0712.0102OpenAlexW3103310866MaRDI QIDQ3600919FDOQ3600919

Authors: Jean-Paul Allouche, Christiane Frougny 

Publication date: 9 February 2009

Published in: Acta Arithmetica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Univoque numbers are real numbers $lambda>1$ such that the number 1 admits a unique expansion in base $lambda$, i.e., a unique expansion $1=su{m}_{jgeq0}{a}_{j}lambd{a}^{-(j+1)}$, with $a_{j}in0,1,\mathrm{...},lceillambdaceil-1$ for every $jgeq0$. A variation of this definition was studied in 2002 by Komornik and Loreti, together with sequences called {em admissible sequences}. We show how a 1983 study of the first author gives both a result of Komornik and Loreti on the smallest admissible sequence on the set $0,1,>\mathrm{...},b$, and a result of de Vries and Komornik (2007) on the smallest univoque number belonging to the interval $(b,b+1)$, where $b$ is any positive integer. We also prove that this last number is transcendental. An avatar of the Thue-Morse sequence, namely the fixed point beginning in 3 of the morphism $3o31$, $2o30$, $1o03$, $0o02$, occurs in a "universal" manner.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.0102

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zbMATH Keywords

automatic sequencetranscendencebeta-expansionThue-Morse sequenceuniform morphismiteration of continuous functionsunivoque numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Radix representation; digital problems (11A63) Special sequences and polynomials (11B83) Combinatorics on words (68R15) Automata sequences (11B85) Transcendence (general theory) (11J81)

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